Category: SCOM

SCOM is a great product, but sometimes I would have liked that they spent a bit more time on implementing the silverlight dashboards, especially the performance one. The reason? The usage of the hardcoded GUIDs to populate the performance counters. Let’s back up a bit, before going on, and talk a bit about the usage…

I really like this script for sending SMS using SCOM. Though it has some bugs in it’s current form. I also do not have a Twilio account. That is why I decided to rewrite some of the logic to use generic HTTP SMS gateways. Currently it is set up for using pswincom sms gateway, though…

I really like this Wei Out there template, and also this that gives a overview of the Send Queue Size of the SCOM agent. Though I’m lazy and do not like that I have to click the performance counter column so it will sort by it. That is why I have added some code so…

I recently did some work on publishing internal legacy applications using WAP and ADFS for pre-authentication. Wrapping of the production part of these components I wanted to get full visibility into how they performed over time. To do this I added in SCOM management packs for both products. As monitoring kicked in I started seeing…

I always try not to have to do too much repeat work, so when I have some extra time I like to make some stuff easier. This time I threw together a quick and easy way of adding the needed firewall openings to servers for SCOM Agent push installs. One little note; the commands used…